John Legend will headline a special show in New York this Memorial Day Weekend to benefit veterans and their families. I spoke with Legend about giving back, his strong activist voice, new music and more.
Baltin: It's interesting you say they were mentors as well. Did they help you early on find that voice and figure out how to use it in a way that marries music and activism?
Legend: Well, I think this is especially poignant doing this on Memorial Day weekend, celebrating our veterans. But not just celebrating them and telling them thank you, but actually showing them that we're grateful to them for their service and for their sacrifice, by making sure that they have the resources that they need.
Baltin: Taking this into the Vegas residency and the Memorial Day show, are there songs that you've really enjoyed playing again? Legend: I wrote so much, I was prolific. We didn't really write much in 2020 because I still had just finishedand put it out. And we were really not going into studios, we weren't working in spaces with other people. But we started to open up a little bit more, we started to test all the time and open up to working with other people starting in early 2021. And last year, given that we weren't touring until late August, I had a lot of time to write.
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